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The second season of Friday Night Lights is not very good television. In fact, it’s downright awful. Whatever your favorite memories of the show—the fatherly tone of Kyle Chandler’s Coach Taylor, the cool-mom approachability of Connie Britton’s Tami Taylor, the smoldering bad-boy gaze of Taylor Kitsch’s Tim Riggins, the awkward affability of Jesse Plemons’s Landry, or the wounded masculinity of Michael B. Jordan’s Vince Howard—they probably don’t involve the plot points of season two. That season of television was uniquely bad for a few reasons, but chief among them was the fact that it was cut short by the strike action taken by the Writers Guild of America, which participated in total work stoppage from November 2007 to February 2008. For the first time in fifteen…

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